Yellowstone National Park officials captured 53 of America's last wild buffalo Friday morning 2/8/08.
National Park officials intend to slaughter without testing; calves may be slaughtered or sent to experimental quarantine facility....

Will Potter on the Progressive Radio Network with Lee Stringer. Will Potter is an award-winning independent journalist based in Washington, D.C., who focuses on how the “War on Terrorism” affects civil liberties....

In early December, members of the Buffalo Field Campaign met with Yellowstone National Park administrators and also attended the Interagency Bison Management Plan open house. At both meetings the news from the agencies wasn't good. BFC was told that it will likely be a very bad winter the buffalo....

Authorities in Britain have approved the laboratory creation of embryos that mix human and other animal genes. No doubt vivisection will be the first beneficiary of this sort of twisted "science."
Audio:about 2 1/2 min...

George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 fm interviews Stephanie Seay of the Buffalo Field Campaign about the Montana state and the federal govt. practice of capturing wild buffalo on public lands and slaughtering them or transporting them hundreds of miles. In the last two weeks in Montana state and federal authorities planned to slaughter 300 wild buffalo, including calves and their mothers. It was stopped by the BFC and public outcry, but this is not the first time this has happened. I...

The Sea Shepherd's antarctic cruise has ended in victory over the Japanese factory whaling fleet. Operation Leviathan ended with the fire-damaged Nissan Maru limping back to Japan(she just got back days ago!) and the Sea Shepherds ships Farley Mowat and Robert Hunter sailing in triumph to Australia....

Karen Pickett was a guest on the KMUD Environment Show tonight talking about the
great Green Scare, the corporate driven FBI and federal grand jury crackdown on
environmental radicals, and branding them as terrorists....

On November 5, a small group of animal rights activists demonstrated in front of the KFC on Mission St., a busy road which is also Highway 1 in Santa Cruz. The number of customers in the restaurant quickly dwindled and passing motorists, pedestrians, bicyclists, KFC customers and an employee that encountered the protesters were either very supportive of the demonstration or willing to listen to and learn from the protesters.
I spoke with one activist to find out why he protesting in front ...

On Sunday October 2, I met up with The Progressive Animal Rights Alliance of Santa Cruz at the Food Bin on Mission St. in Santa Cruz. We marched a few blocks to the KFC on Mission St. to call attention to KFC's cruelty to animals....

Interview with Captain Paul Watson from on board the Sea Shepherd Socoety's ship, The Farley Mowat. Watson and his crew were in the midst of a fierce north Atlantic storm, and being shadowed by a Canadian Coast Guard vessel. Captain Watson talks about how the Canadian government lies about the seal &quot;hunt,&quot; and more....

EARTH MATTERS - weekly environmental news segment on KPFA's news magazine, FLASHPOINTS. This week: headlines, followed by an interview with REBECCA ALDWORTH, via satellite phone from the ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where 20- 30,000 baby harp seals are being slaughtered every day....